Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actions of a few people in Iran." For safety's sake, however, the U.S. ordered that nonessential embassy personnel and dependents be evacuated from eleven Muslim countries, which have become jittery because of the Ayatullah's calls to action and because of the approach of the aircraft carriers Kitty Hawk and Midway to the Persian Gulf...
...unbelievable 41% per year. The Shah further set out to build one of the world's foremost military machines, and in the last 20 years of his reign spent a cool $36 billion on arms-Chieftain tanks from Britain, sophisticated F-14 fighter planes and Hawk and Phoenix missiles from the U.S. By the time the Khomeini revolution broke out, the Shah had placed orders that would have given Iran a 1980 supersonic fighter force larger than that of any Western country except...
...White House, supported by widespread American indignation against the Iranians, responded with a warning that "the consequences of harm to any single hostage will be extremely grave." President Carter backed up that warning by ordering the 80,000-ton carrier Kitty Hawk and five escorting warships to speed from Subic Bay in the Philippines to reinforce the carrier Midway arid twelve other ships already in the Persian Gulf area. Until last week, the White House had emphatically ruled out all talk of using military force against Iran; now it just as emphatically warned that while it was seeking a peaceful...
...Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, 51, the "First Secretary" of the Council, is a tall mullah with a heavy beard, hawk nose and a magisterial manner when dealing with both colleagues and subordinates. Fluent in English and German (he served as a mullah to Iranian Muslims in Germany for five years during the 1960s), Beheshti is a skillful debater in public and a cunning manipulator behind the scenes...
...overdramatization. All U.S. units in South Korea, including the Second Infantry Division and the 72 F-4 fighters of the 8,000-man Air Force detachment, were put on a "defense condition 3" level of alert, two notches below a red alert. The Pentagon sent the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk toward a South Korean port and rushed two Airborne Warning and Control planes to the area to monitor North Korean military movements. U.S. diplomats in Peking and Moscow urged the Chinese and Soviets to use their influence to restrain North Korea. Washington also warned North Korea that the U.S. would...